http://bigthink.com/blogs/Mind-Matters <p>In markets, medicine, justice, politics, psychology, and economics, "Rational Man" is dead. As the science of human behavior enters the post-rational era, we no longer think of ourselves as cool calculators in pursuit of our objective self-interest. Mind Matters is about this change and its effects on how we live. It's about the reasons people perceive, feel, think, and act as they do, and the gaps between what we think we're doing and what research says we're doing. Most importantly, it's about how this sea change affects the institutions we live by:&nbsp;courts, hospitals, governments, stock markets and other entities that still run on the presumption that people act rationally.</p> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:49:08 -0000 Copyright Big Think. This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/blogs/mind-matters/~3/BGFHaVg5Z64/42306 http://bigthink.com/ideas/42306 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:00 -0500
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